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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1895-5-31, Page 7ADVICE TO YOUNG MEN, Sermon. by 'Bev. DeWitt Talmage. ; At the Academy of Musio, Dr. Tal- mage aneets many Inindeeds of young men, and representing tamest every call- ing and profession in life. To them he Specially addressed his, discoutae, the sub- ject being , "Words with Young Men." "Fayette, Chicle—Reverend She—We, the undersigned, being earnest readers of 1. your sermons, eepeelally request that you use tts subjeet for some one pf your fu- thre- sermons, `Advice to Young Men." Yours respectfully, Ef, a Miliott, Charles T, Rubert, la 0. Millott, M. It.Elder, J. L.. Sherwood, S. 3. Altman." Those six young men, I suppose repre- sent innumerable young men who are about undertaking the battle of life, and who have more int rogation points in their mind than any printer's case ever contained, or printer's fingers ever set up. But few people who have passeclffity years of age are capable of giving advice to young men. Too many begin their coun- sel by forgetting they over WOTO young men themselves. November snows do not understand May -time blossom week. The east wind never did uncletetand the south wind. Autumnal golden -rod mak-es a poor fist at last -ming about early violets. Gen - orally, after a man has rhumatism in his right foot, he is net competent to discuss juvenile elasticity. Not one man out of a hundred can enlist and keep the attention ef the young after there is a bald spot on the oranium. I attended a laxge meeting .Philadelphia, assembled to discuss hew the Young Men's Christian Assooiation of that city might be made more attractive for young people, when a man arose l and =de SOMO suggestions with such lugub- rious tone of voice, and. a manner that 'seemed to deplore that everything was go- ing to ruin, when an old friend, of mine, at seventy-five years as young in feeling as Anyone at twenty, arose and said That good brother who has just addressed you will excuse me for saying that a young man would. no sooner go and. spend an ,evening with such 'funereal -tones of voice suul funereal ideas of religion which that brother seems to have adopted, than he would. go and spend the evening in Laurel Hill Cemetery." And yet these yonng men of Ohio and all young men have a right to ask those who Levelled many op- portunities of studying this world ancl the next world to give helpful suggestions as to what theories of life one ought to adopt, and what dangers he ought to shun. Attention, young men! First: Get yolir soul right. You see, that is the raost valuable part of you. It is the most important room in your house. It is the parlor of your entire nature. Put the best pictures on its walls. Put tlse best musio under its arches. It is import- ant to have the kitchen right, and the dining -room right, and. the cellar right, and all the other rooms of your nature right, but Oh! the parlor of the soul! Be particular about the guests who enter it. •Sla at its doors in the faces of those who would despoil and pollute it. There are princes and kings who would like to come into it, while there are assassins who would like to come out from behind its ourteins, and with silent foot attempt the desperate and murderous. Let the King come in. He is now at the door. Let me be usher to annouunce His arrival,and introduce the King of this world. the King of all worlds, the King eternal, immortal, invisible. Make room. Stand back. Clear the way. Bow, kneel, worship the King. Have Him once for your Guest, and it does not make much difference who comes or goes. Would you bave a war- rantee against moral disaster, and. surety of a noble career? Road at least one chap- ter of the Bilbe on your knees everyday of your life. Word the next: Have your body right. "How are you?" I often say when I meet a friend of mine in Brooklyn. He is over seventy, and alert and vigorous, and very prominent in the law. His answer is, "I an living on the capital of a well - spent youth." On the contrary, there are hunched of thousands,pf good people who .are suffering the results of early sins. The grace of God gives one a now heart, but not a new body. David, the Psalanist, had to ei.7 out, "Remember not the sins of my youth." Let a young man make his body a wine closet, or a rum jug, or a whiskey cask, or a beer barrel, and smoke poison - ems cigarettes until his hand trembles,and he is black under the eyes, and his cheeks fall in, and then at some church seek and find religion yet, all the praying he can do will not hinder the physical conse- quences of natural law fractured. You six young men of Ohio, and all the young men, take care of your eyes, those win- dows of the soul. Take care of your ears, and listen to nothing that depraves. Take -cal.° of your lips, and see that they utter no profanities. Ta,ko case of your nerves by enough sleep and avoid unhealthy ex- eitements, and by, taking outdoor exercise, whether by ball, or skate, or horseback, -lawn .tennis, or exhilarating bicycle, if you sit upright and do not join that throng of several hundred thousands who by the wheel are cultivating crooked :backs, and cramped chests, and deformed ladies, rapidly coming down toward all - tours, and the attitude of the beasts that perish. Anything that bends body, mind, or soul to the earth is unhealthy. Oh, it is a grand thing to be well, but do not de- pend on pharmacy and the doctors to make you well. Stay well. Read John 'Todds' Manual, and Coombs Physiology, and everything yon can lay your hands on about mastication, and digestion, and as- similation. Whore you find ono healthy man or woman, you find fifty half dead. From my own experience I can testify that, being a disciple of the gymnasium, many a time just before going to the par- allel bar, and punching bags, and pullies .and weight, I thought Satan was about taking possession of society and the church .,id the world, but after ouo hour of eimb- ing anti lifting and pulling, I felt like hastening home so as to be there when the millennium set in. Take a good stout atm 111111 .every clay. I find in that habit, which I have kept up since at eighteen years I read the aforesaid Todd's Manual, more recup- eration. than in anything elk. Those six men of Ohio will need all possible nerve, and all possible eyesight, and all possible muscular development beeore they got through the terrific etraggle of this life. Word the next:—T ate care of youe in- tellect. Here comes tI o flood of novelettes, ninety-nine out of a hundred belittling to every one that opens them. Here . comes depraved newepapers submerging geed tient elevated American journalism. Here comes a whole perdition of printed abona- illation, clumped on the breakfast table, and tea table, and vitae table, Take At least one good. newspaper with able edi- torials and reporters' columns mostly oc- oupied with helpful intelligence, announc- ing marriages and deaths and. refOrMatory .and religioue assemblages, and charities bestowed, end the doings of good people, and giving but little place to sleety divorce eases, and stories of crime, which, like cobras, sting those that touch them. Oh, for more newspaPeas that put virtue in whet is palled great primer type, and vie() in, nonpareil or agate! You have all seen the photographer's negative. He took a pieture from it ten or twenty years ago. You, ask him now for a pioture from that same negative. He opens the great chest containing the blacls negatives of 1885, of 1875, and he reproduces the picture. Young men, your memory is allude up of the negatives of an immortal photography. AU that you see or hear goes into your Soul to nuiltb pictures for the future. You Will have with you till the Judgment Day the negatives of all the bad pietures you bave ever looked at, and of all the de- bauchea scenes you have road about. Show me the newspapers you take and the books you read and I will tell you what are your prospects for well-being in this life, and what will be your residence a million years after the star on which we now live shall have chopped out of the constella- tion. I never trawl on Sunday unless it be a case of necessity or anaimy. But last Autumn I was in India in a city plague - struck. By the hundreds the people were down with fearful illness. We went to the apothecary's to get some preventative of the fever, and the place was crowded with invalids and wo heel no confidence in the preventive we purchased from the Hin- does. The mail train was to start Sabbath evening. I said, "Frankel think the Lord will excuse us if wo get out of this place with the fast train;" and we took it, not fooling quite comfortable till we were hundreds of miles away. I felt we were right in flying from the plague. Welathe air in many of our cities is struok through with a worse plague—the plague of cor- rupt and damnable literature. Got away from it as soon as possible. It has already ruined the bodies, minds and souls of a multitude which, if stood in solid colmen, would reach from New York Battery to Golden Horn. The palgue 1 The plague! Word the next! Never go to any place whore you would be ashamed to die. Adopt that plan, and you will never go to any ovil amusement, nor be found in any compromising surroundings. How many startling cases within the past few years of men called suddenly auto! this world, and the newspapers surprised us when they mentioned the locality and the compan- ionship. To put it on the least important ground, you ought not to go to any stash forbidden place, because if you depart this life in such circumstances you put officiat- ing ministers in great embarrassinent. You know that some of the ministers be- lieve that all who leave this life go straaght to heaven,however tbey have act- ed in this world, or whatever they have believed. To get you through from such surroundings is an appalling 1 he.ological undertaking. One of the most melons and bests -eating efforts of that kind that I ever knew of was at the obsequies of a man who was found dead in a snow bank with his rure-jug close beside Man. But the minister did the work of happy transfer- ence as well as possible although it did seem a little inappropriate when he read "Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord. They rest from their labors and their works do follow them." If you have no mercy upon the minister who may be call- ed to officiate at your demise. Die at home or in scene place of honest business or where the laughter is clean or amid companonships pure and elevating. Re- member that any place we ese to may be- come our starting point for the next world. When we enter the harbor of Ilea,ven and the Officer of Light comes aboard let us be able to show that our clearing papers were dated at the right port. Word the next!: As soon as you can by industry and economy have a home of you own. What do I mean by a home? I mean two rooms and the blessing of God on both of them; one room for slumber one for food its preparation and the par- taking thereof. Mark you I would like you to have a home with thirty rooms, all upholstered, pit:stared and statuetted, but I am putting it down at the minimum. A husband and a wife who cannot be happy with a home madcap of two rooms would not be happy ill Heaven if they got there. He who wins and keepathe affec- tion of a good practical woman has done gloriously. What do I mean by a good woman? I mean one who loved God be- fore she loved you. What do I mean by a practical woman? I mean one who can help you to earn ci living, for a time comes in almost every man's life when he is flung of hard misfortune, and you do not want a weakling going around the house whining and sniffing about how she had it before you marriedher. The simple reason why thousands of men never get on in the world is because they Married nonentities and never got or it. The only thing that Job's wife propoied for his boils was a warm poultice of profanity, saying, "Curse God and die." It adds to our admiration of John Wesley the man. - nor in which he conquered domestic un- happiness. His wife had slandered him all Over England until, standing in his pulpit in City Road Chapel he complained to the people, saying, "I have been charg- ed with every crime in the catalogue ex- cept drunkennes ;" when his wife arose in the back part of the church and said, "John, you know you were drunk last night." Then Wesley exclaimed, "Thank God, the catalogue is complete." When a man marries, he marries for Heaven or hell, and it is more so when a woman marries. You six young men in Fayette Ohio, had better look out. Word the next: Do not start yourself too high. Better rate yourself too low. If you rate yourself too low, the world will say, "Come up." If you rate yourself too high, the world will say, "Come down." It is a bad thing when a man gets so ex- aggerated an idea Of himself as did Earl of Bucban, whose speech Ballantyn, the Edinburgh printer, could not set up for publication because he had not enough capital I's among his type. Remember that the world got along without you nearly six thousand years before you were born, and unless some meteor collides with us, or some internal explosion occurs, the world will probably last several thou- sand years after you axe dead. Word the next: Do not postpone too long doing something decided for God, human- ity and yourself. The greatest things have been done before forty years of age; Grotitis at seventeen; Roixtums at twenty; Pitt at teventy-two; • Whifiefield at twenty-four; Bonaparte at twenty-seven; Ignatius Loyo- la at thirty; Raphael at thirty-seven' . had made the world feel their virtue or their vioe, and the' biggest strokes you will pro- bably inake for the truth or against the truth will be before you reach the meridian of life. Do not wait for something to turn up. Go to work and turn it up. There is no saoh thing as good luck i No anan that over lived has had a bettor tinio thee I have had; yet 1 never had any good Inca. But instead thereof, a kind Provi- dence has crowded my life with mercies. You will never accOmplieh attach as long as you go at your Work on the minute you ate expected, and stop at the first minute it is lawfal to quit. The greatly Useful and successful men of the next eentorY will be those who began ealf an aour be- fore they were vecprired, and iverleed at least half an hour after they neighet have quit, Unless they are willing sometime* to work twelve hours of the clay, you will remain on the low levels, and. your life will be a prolonged humdrum. Word the next: Remember that it Is only a small pert of our life that we are to pass on earth. Less than your finger nail compared with your whole body is Ile life on earth when compared with the next life. I 541 -Voss there are not more than half a demon people in this word a hun- dred Years old. But a very few people in any country email eighty, The majority of the luuntin moo expire before thirty, What an equipoise in such a considera- tion, If things go wrong, it is only for a little while. Have yen uot enough moral pluck to stand the jostling, and the in- justices,and the anietaps of tho small par- enthesis between the tevo eternities? It is a good thing to get ready for the one mile this side the marble slab; but more im- portant to get fixed up for the internals - able mile which stretch out into the dis- tances beyond the marble slab. Word the next: Rill yourself with bio- graphies of men oho did gloriously in the business, or occupati na, or profession you are about to choose, or have already chos- en. Going to be a ineveha,nt? Read up. Peter Cooper, and Abbot Lawrence, and James Lenox, and William E. Dodge, and George Peabody. Soo how the most of thern munched their noonday lunoheon made up of dry broad tenet hunk of cheese, behind a counter or a storeroom, as they started in a business which brought them to bless the world with millions of dollars consecrated to a hospitals, and sellools,and churches, and private benefaotions, where neither right hand or left hand knew what the other land did. Going to be a physi- oian? Read up Harvey, and Grosse, and Sir Adam Clarke, and James Y.Simpson, the discoverer of chloroform as au anaes- thetic, and Leslie Keeley, who, notwith- standing all the damage done by his in- competent haitators, stands one of the greatest benefactors of the centuries; and all the other mighty physicians who have mended broken bones, and enthroned again deposed intellects, and given their lives to healing the long, deep gash of the world's agony. Going to be a mechanic? Reed up the inventors of sewing-intsobines, and cotton gins, and life-saving apparatus, and the men who are architects, and. builders, and manufacturers, and day 1A1103:01.'S have made a life of thirty years in this century worth more than the full one eundred years of any other century. You Six young men of Ohio and. all the other young men—instead Ohio, your time ort dry essays as to how to do great things .eo to the biographical alcove of your vil- lage or oity library, and acquant your- selves with men svho in the sight of earth, and Heaven, and hell, did the great things. Remember, the greatest things are yet to be done. If the Bible be true, or as I had better itsince the Bible is beyond all con- troversy true, the greatest battle is yet to be fought, and compared with it Sara- gossa, and Gettysburg., and Sedan were child's play with toy pistols Wo even know the name of the battle, though we were not certain as to where it will be fought. I refer to Armageddon. The greatest discoveries are yet tbe made. A. scientist has recently discovered in the air something which will yet rival electricity. The most of things have not yet been found out. An explorer has recently foand in the Valley of the Nile a whole fleet of ships buried there ages ago where now is no water. Only six out of the eight hundred grasses have been turned, into food like the potato and the tomato. There are hundreds of other styles of food to be dis- covered. Aerial navigation will yet be made as safe as travel on the solid earth. Cancers, and constunptions, and leprosies are to be transferred. from the cataloge.e of incurable disease to the curable. Medical men are now suocessfully experimenting with modes of transferring diseases from weak constitutions which cannot throw them off, to stout constitutions which are able to throw them off. Worlds like Mars and the moon will be within hailing dis- tanes, and instead of confining our know- ledge to their canals and their volcanoes, they will signal all styles of intelligence to us, and we will signal all styles of in- telligence to them. Coming times will class our boasted. ninetenth century with the dark ages. -Under the power of Gos- pelization the world is going to be so im- proved that the sword and the musket of our time will be kept in museums, as now we look at thumbscrews and ancient in- struments of torture. Oh, what opportun- ities you are going to have, young men all the world over under thirty. How thank- ful you ought to be that you were not born any sooner. Blessed are the cradles that are being rocked now. Blessed are the students in the freshman class. Blessed. those who will yet be young men when the new century comes in in five or six years from now. This world was hardly fit to live in in the eighteenth century. I do not see bow the old folks stood it: During this nineteenth century the world has by Christianizing and educational influences been fixed up until it doos very well for temporary residence. But the twentieth century! Ah, that will be the time to see great sights, and do great deeds. Oh, young man, get ready for the rolling itt of that mightiest, and grandest, and most glorious century that the world has ever seen! Are Thanks Unnecessary? "A great deal is said about men being thanked for giving np their seats in the street cars to women," said a man in con- versation with a friend. "Now for my part I don't want to be thanked for simply doing my duty." "But is it your duty," asked the friend, "to give up a seat for which you have paid and stand up the entire trip to accommo- date a stranger?" "I look at it as a duty. It is a deal easier for a man to hang to a strap than it is for a woman. The fact that a woman is standing while I sit annoys me. It does not matter in the least to mo that she is a stranger—I feel under olbiagtions to give her my place." "That is galatitry," sneered his friend. "It comes nearer to bring reciprocity, Every few days some man gives my wife or another a seat in a crowded car, so I try to pass the courtesy on. Only yesterday I saw every man in a Spadina avenue car give up his seat to some woamn. Not ono was thankea, or looked as if he expeoted to be, or indeed gave the woman in the ease a chance to thank him. It was done as if all belonged to one Mangy, but as the tette spirit a politeness was in the tame- spheee, and thanks, though not &edible, wet() telt. To tell the truth, it orobar- rasses me to have a womaft eepeat that set formula, "thank you, " I guess you're not oeten embarrassed,' ' retorted his friend, cynically. And there the conversation ended, It and 11' cid for, came t and, 111 wind Br rain, graye er()SINe'(sLte. breath to it that he drew a deep again inhale its inernmies --Led breathed the dans) odor of his clays- anatentum, "Bah," he muttered, pulling himself together with a short laugh, "they can't give you fragrance, with all their culti- vuaettirnogp,ays.00n. aro a Sitting favorite of the His wide brows wore drawn together in a shave line. It as as if some conjuror's trite had shown him the futility of his existence, his dissatisfaetion of all thinge, aunsaof most of sall—a dissatisfac- tion fin forgotten, because he had bocoe so od Yeti now two hours later, as he entered his librery,the scent of the rose seems to pervade everything; it clings to the heavy Curtains, breathes beim the soft pillows, coils like gold snakes from the wood fire. Before him an open cabinet, is a row a dainty shoes; souvenias—eclioes of' his deed youth. He takes them in his hand one by ono, rogardine''them thoughtfully. The first—how well he remembers; it was spring; the wood Was alive with blossoming things and a boy and girl gathered them, Hr eyes were like the purple violets, her hair like gold crocuses itt sunshine. The brook laughed only less gayly than she, as he carried her over its stepping -stones; and as they got to the middle this dear little shoe fell off. The stains on the toe,tell how he found it next day, imbedded in mud. And she gather- ed no more spring flowers. Ile places it tenacity on the shelf, and takes up anotaer with Louis (anin,ze heel —a marvel in scarlet satin. He laughs. He paid for a whole shop of such when Ottolo was dancing at K—'s ; and dreamed he had exclusive privilege to pay for them. One morning he awoke to find he had been dreaming. He laughs again Sho was his first extravagance. The next slipper, with its white 1 rosette, danced through a girl's first b She was not so bad for a debutante; had a way of laughing in her eyes caught his foamy. "You will not forget me," he treated, when her marriage bl way—a man's light question. had answered as a young girl could not, you are a man 1 ba,14'h' en give me something-- mg— to keep; to know that you remember?" Perhaps there was no time for drawing off a glove, a flower'or perhaps she was unusual,. that girl; for when the carriage thundered off it left him staring at this slipper in his hand. Poor girl her mother married her to a wealthy dotard before the end of the season. He meets her often now, a sad -eyed woman of the world. She has forgotten much, but the slipper lives on his cabinet shelf, immaculate. Carruthers does not think of looking at them all; it is so long since he has added to the collection --so long since retro- spection has seemed sweet. He is seeking for one; and as he puts down the debut- ante's slipper he finds it. One unlike the others—.a small sabot bought long ago in Belgium—when they, the woman whom - he loved and lost, and he, had selected the pair; when she wore brier -roses and they went shopping in a quaint old town. He gives a little gasp as his hand closes over it; ho brings it back to the fire and looks at it as if it were in somas strange way a link to her. So absorbed is he that the burr -r -r of a bell does not disturb him; neither does he hear a child's voice talk- ing to his man in the hall. It is only when she stands before him that be starts as if shot, and the sabot falls with a crash upon the hearth. "I beg your pardon," he says; "you rather started me—His face quite ex- presses the description. She laughs. "He told me I mustn't speak to you," with a backward nod of her brown heed, "but he is so etemid! My birfday doll is so long in coming home; Jane says perhaps they've left it wif some u.ver people: 1 came to ask you." Her small, grave face is an interrogation "Bates certainly is stupid." They smile together, are friends at once; and all the while Carruthers wonders if it is fano., or if in truth this ethild is so like Iler "Where do you come from? Where were they told to send Miss Dolly?" he asked, with unction. "Why, don't you know, we live up the elevator—muver .and 1—but not papa," with a sigh, "he's dead." Carruthers softly touches her waving hair, but she is not looking at him, she is studying mriously that little wooden shoe. "Why that's inuver's," she exclaims, reaching her chubby hand for it "14Iuver will feel very sorry evifout her slipper. Whore did you get it?" Her wide eyes fixed upon hint, demand an unequivocal answer, so he say: "I think you are mistaken; a lady gave it to me a long time ago, before you were bo Srnh.e"is only half convinced, but. an innate delicacy prevents contradiction. "It is very like muver's," she says, slowly. "Perhaps mother will show me hers some day," with a sudden tightening of the throat. Strange that the -child should so resemble her, and her mother have just such a shoo. Her face brightens. "I will show you," she tells him, "I will bring it to you." She is going—perhaps she will never come back—he must detain heainsure her return. "Wait," he says, impetuouely, "take this with you." He finds ti card and pushing it into the shoe, thrasts it into her hands. "Show it to your mother, ask herif it is like hers," He is almost incohevent in bis eager- ness; it comes upon him altogether, that he has found her again Ho opens the door, and sees her sefely in the elevator. "Take this child to--" "Mrs. Pomfret," the name is supplieu by the r eoleaoxot, altnorraboy4 o he repeats it ovet, as he paces his library, striving to remember name wait% Is hers by marriage. "MSS. Pomfret t" ho thinks with alaugh. "How should 1 remora ber, I never even heard it." The child's voice intetrupts him, "Mur- ex's is just the same," she is telling him radiantly, while he brings the little shoes totiithelightvisiting one is a rose; he touches 18 reverently. At this moment of suprerne hope it great calm fall upon him. "Let us take them back to her," he Says, placing her hand in his. X AT that face he crowd surely, ena else, net brought the pe' - to Carruthers. Wee had bver looked, colder or .a Dew 1or twilight The oast tea Our ng people with sharp point f steel. Yet as she turn - Ito= he saw her, and there staxt ;warmth of summer neon smell f brier -roses, eeross the TUE FARM AND G A RD EN HINTS AND N1WS N °TES. .100.1. (4 ivy omit Oo 13. nt,t, y - -Clippings and iegpt; etio AtQrzt.ii;1,,17 1NttL,,i4iIiii(lehrslVe ben ,iae Impro the ii‘o s. A poultry female): writes to the 011i0 Farmer that la the meteor intproviug one's peultryevhert stook mustbe pox- chaeod, there is an excellent; opportunity for the use of judgment. To oluengo our dung Mil fowle to something better or nicer requires scan ethiag more thee mere useudieg off" for oge,e or stools. Adver- tlsel's aro mostly humanand may be ntis- teken if not ivorso. In poultry it is a com- paratively easy meter foe any one to elite the list of the breedere. .A. couple of sit- tings of eggs or a trio oe fowls, will be sulaaent in ono yew: to set a man up in 14t:0de with one or name yards oil prize -win - nine birds" I am not prepared to say pose decay that olio' dollar per bird. or ono Melee per sitting le too low for good steels. Bat I. do say that an immense amount, or low grade stook is =naily sold at these figures. As a matter or fact, one dollar invoeted in poultry will bring a dollar's worth --seldom more. In 0 sense, peahens this cheapening anew be a geed thing by enabling those of scanty means to make a utast in something better than they have. High prices do nor necesseelly prove that the stook sold is of high quality 'Ohm is this much of proof about it: no 0.110 MU obtain high prices who has not some just °Mein to such by higher grade, fact that a man ernIcirreetys. d Thego b closer culling or faire sporli:the pet the thi s yietairs af that ng ate and 61e1Uwet. heoethen 10r hove the afford to r bird ti vorth lars to st the You , ancl will be am not eght in - es to get s is adv.'s. are auxi- ea to have it u are going to ar fowls and to good as some one don't start at all. heartening things is with a satisfied own - (sultry exhibited ae fairs, be ashamed to have on my no hope of doing bettor next hilizaboth Vierobe, who died recently in a German village, had. been a servant in one household for seveety-nine yeara. er, whie fame if year. 1 not mewl mine is bettor tha,u that exhibited, because it is probably not, but I knew the defects of mine, and in- stead of thrusting theni into the face of a much suffering publle at the fair, I am malting my plans to secure improvement. Only for this I tolerate my present stotle, and as soon as 1 Lark get something better these will go. Honesty in Forming. Tee farmer who is contented with the average condition 7.1111.St 0.X.pACt only aver- age price... He who produces auythine and puts it on the mattet in prime cella ton is the ono who is going to make sales first and gets top prices. The average ntan comes along later. No matter what yon have to sell, put it in the best possible condition fax market and. see to it that you can adopt the same motto that we once saw in a barrel of apples in the East. When the head was taken out of that barrel there was exposed a prheted slip which seta: "This package was produced and packed by John Smith, who guarantees that when you see the top you see the whole." The commission -man told us tiat he never hacl any trouble with any- thing that man sent in, for his reputation had. been made. He not only packed his fruit and vegetables in the beet manner, but sorted the sizes when the package was opened the buyer know just wealco expect from top to bottom. We know a farmer who takes his grain to market ancl dumps it wherever the buyer tells him to, and is then asked how many bushels hehad. His grain is never looked at nor weighed by the man who lets bought it for years; if it is not in good condition he insists on in- spection, but if he knows it is all right he unloads and gets his pay. A reputation of that kind is worth more than a good Lan, for it brings a greater return. Hon- esty is not the best policy only, but it is absolutely necessary to d finul success. Carelessness is the costliest habit a farsner can fall into, and trickery, while it may feeni to succeed for a time, must cost mace than it comes to in the end. Growing Good. Pigs. A correspondent of the Rural New Yorker thinks there is nothing like oats to feed pigs. He mixes the oatmeal with shipstuff or anialdirs, using the house, slops as wetting. Pn, cold weather he warms the slops and adds cornmeal. This kind of mixture, which furnished a varie- ty, he finds rich in flesh and bone forming material, making a good quality of both. While shipstuff and mialdings furnish, the requisite material, fed alone they make soft and flabby muscle. He says! "I have fed oats for years,and I think no other food equal to them in correcting the inequali- ties of a diet of corn or shipstuff or both. The feed should vary according to the condition a the animal and it natural ten- dencies to lay on fat or grow muscle.' In short, the individuality of the pig must be studied, as pigs vary in their needs and appetites as much as other animals. Ex- ercise alone will not Make muscle, but it is a great aid. in conjunction with proper food. It is only just begininng to dawn upon the minds of pig -growers that there Is a wide difference between growing a pig and fattening it. If there is a saving in work by ensilag- ing corn to feed COWS, then there is econo- my in growing green crops in suitable patches to feed your hogs by lotting them help themsolves—always turning in just at the crops of peas or oats, or whatever it may be, teaches its best conditiore and having hogs enough to use it tni before any of it has time to go to waste. In this Way it is possible to raise a succession of crops of various kinds, MVO)? omitting °lover as the base and main reliance— turning the hogs from one to the other at the proper tine, and thus bringing them to maturity With little more -touble ot expense than just putting in the several drops and in their suecession turning itt the hogs to help theinsolvoe. Your pork will be produced cheaply and year soil will be cotistantly growing , richer, pro- cludieg bigger crops and fattening more hogs. Xis this way we believe a man omelet carry ost a, system of hog farming that would prove highly remunerative, Wo have heard a good deal said about the artificial condition of the cota but who bas acaoaaited on the eatifleial eOli4i- 0.°4 of the pig1u is no 'less in an eatifie Oka condition, um less deliendent on tho jeclemons of Mall tor his lioaltif tailless end vigor. We m est give him a ehatitle for exercise and fresh air. If we have weak- ened his power to resist the action of the OlOOLOON, WA must giVA 3111A protection in that direction. If we have interfered with the law el the survival of the Attest, waieh under imture (eawde oat of exist - 01100 a/0 WealcOr LtatIALLIS, WO must by care ana judgment seloot and breed ()lily from the strongest, otherwise the Will be de- gemeratiote So the farther we get the pig away from natetral, stirroandiegs,WO IOWA supply Min with correspondine artificial ones The pig of Civilisation can no more survive under wild conditions and. retain his Improved feat -amp than civilized man can remain intelligent and refined, under the deprivations of n PurelYsevage life. Hertioulturae Nets, Flavor Etna taste axe not the same, 'You taste the flavor but do isot flavor the taste. Level cralture is best for almost every crop, Rifling up is often disastrous in a dry :mason, where level culture would have succeeded. Intelligence, is a requisite of no less im- portance in handling and =electing our soil products than in growing the same, and yet a fact that has been too slightly considered, indeed quite generally ignored by Canadian fruit -growers. California grades her apples, peaches, plums ancl pears designed for shipment to ()erten fLeed tees, and upon this system has acquire(' here reputation for the fine productions that are found on every trait stand in the East, Why not by the same methoda save the raarkets for our own soleated fruits, possessed of a quality that we know would he far superior. Well -selected, °verily -graded, well -color- ed., carefully packed -fruits are only want- ed by the vendors and purchasers wherever , marketed, and only such will sell at a profit, especially in maxkets overstocked, and in periods of business, depression. Hence, we cannot too strongly Ingo upon the fruit -growers of Canada greater care and continued improvement in selecting and handling everything produced, or the dine will certainly come when they will regret the pronounced neglect which is a subject of gen oral criticism at the pres- ent time in all the great markets. Every bit as importa,nt as putting tho. seed in the ground is 0 careful selection of varieties and kinds. to be used. Though " a little early to plant, it is just time for action in making up your mind what you intend to plant. It would be impossible to keep run of the many wonderful' and new varieties of both flower arid seeds that are continually being introcluceel,were they not carefully tabulated and described in the seedmaa's c3atalogues, which to -day have become vellums of no small pre- tence, filled with inuch useful informa- tion on matters pertaining to horticulture and agriculture. The poorest pear with fertilizer, proper thinning, a harrow (that is used every 10 days,) and a good spraying outfit, is far better than the hese without them. For summer pears I ban found the Doyenne d'Ete profitable, a very small pear, ripen- ing the first of August, Beam Gittard, Manning's Elizabeth, Clapeee Favorite and Bartlett, are all good pears, given in order of ripening. Fall pear, the Kieffer's Hybrid and Beurre d'Anjou, are my fa- sp-ioarnitte.s ; they are the only pears I would Perm Notes. The best soil will nor grow crops from poor seed. No farmer should neglect to sow rye, oats or barley for hog pasture unless he be one who has no hogs. The wet weather which comes in spring fills the oil with water, and makes it easy to see where underdrains are neded. Low places where the water settles on the sur- face cart plainly be seen in spring,and also the natural way for the removal of the surplus over the surface. A. variety of Japanese corn has been successfully grown for several years on the grounds of Cornell University. While it produces good-sized ears, it is not so valu- able as the ordinai7 variety under culti- vation. Its distinctive feature is that its leaves are striped similar to ribbon grass. There is no need to drag mellow soil after clover seed has been sown in order to cover it. The rains will,do this better than man can. Even the brush harrow often recommended for this purpose is worse than useless. On winter grain, a dragging of the haxdoned surface, to mel- low it before sowing clover and grass seeds, will insure a better catch. To secure the farmers' vete at the ape preaching election, the Dominion Govern- ment has guaranteed to buy all winter - made butter for N cents a pound and pay for shipping to England. The ostensible object is to foster the batter trade andput it on equality with that of cheese. The Butter and Cheese Association protest against the proposoa action, the price named being 4 cents above what the butter would net in England, and coming in competition with fresh -made butter from other countries, would disparage the home product. There needs to be more variety in our grasses, especially for clover. Many farm- ers sow timothy and clover as if no other combination were possible. A sprinkling of orchard grass is often better, especially Lan pasture. It will be also better for:cut- ting as hay, for the clover and orchard grass are at their best at nearly the same time. When clover ia sown with timothy one or the other is partly- wasted. Usually It is the clover, as the fanner wants to have the timothy in head by whioh time the clover is brown anti dried. The or- chard grass needs to be out early, even be- fore it fully gets into its head. Then both it and the clover will make second crops, and if the soil and season be right will make third crops in the same year, H. Immendorf of Germany has review the literature on the subject of saving the nitrogen of yard manure, and coacludes, according to the ExperimeA Station Re- eord, the principal cause of loss oe com- bined nitrogen in the ordinary Method of handling =nate is found in the volatili- zation of ammonia. The evolution of free nitrogen plays a comparatively insig- nificant role. The cvolution of ainmenia begins as soones the manure is voided, and is especially rapid in the liquid excre- ment. A considerable loss of ammonia, as WOil as of gaseous nitrogen, may also occur after the nitrogen manure is thrown itt the heap. ,Peaty or humus earth may replace with advantage a part at least of the straw generally USOd AS an absorbents The use of burnt linae or Thomas slag for the parpose of conserving manure should be entirely disearded, All the worla over thete Are ninety-eight women. to One hundred men.